Advice on access to finance and funding

Your Contact at ICS

Marion KIKINGER

Export Financing & Funding
T +43 316 601 703
E marion.kikinger@ic-steiermark.at

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Export – the key to your future business success!

Our team, specialised in export financing and funding, never loses track, even when matters seem complex. They provide businesses interested in exporting with tailored advice about export funding and information on export loans with favourable terms. Positioning itself at the crossroad between the decision-making federal and state bodies, the ICS is responsible for collecting and pre-examining the “go-international” online export funding applications.

‘Our main export markets have traditionally been Germany and Switzerland – “go-international” gave us the impetus to look beyond the DACH region and consider markets such as Japan, for example.’
JULIA FANDLER, Owner & Managing Director of Ölmühle Fandler GmbH
‘Positioning an innovative product such as our Yield-WatchDog software in a new market always involves market entry risks. The “go-international” funding programme helped to significantly mitigate this risk.’
DIETER RATHEI , Managing Director of DR YIELD software & solutions GmbH

Internationalisation campaign ‘go-international’

The proven internationalisation initiative “go-international” has been extended until 2027. This means that Styrian export companies can now submit applications for the “go-international” funding programme again.

Find out more about the latest funding opportunities from the go-international programme, which has proven itself over decades as a successful support for the internationalisation process:

  • Federal funding programme
  • Set up a funding account & submit your application online at www.go-international.at
  • Apply IN ADVANCE, before the project starts!
  • Initial contact with the Foreign Trade Centre
  • Maximum of 3 countries per application
  • 5 direct funding measures: digital marketing cheque, project business cheque, internationalisation cheque, education cheque and sourcing cheque
  • New applications may only be submitted after the initial application has been settled
‘We take time for our local businesses and clarify the eligibility of export projects in personal discussions. We also provide information about all new developments, such as the funding account on the “go-international” website.’
Marion Kikinger, Export promotion consultant at ICS

SFG - Steirische Wirtschaftsförderungsgesellschaft mbH

SFG subsidies and financing with a focus on exports: State subsidies that can only be applied for by Styrian SMEs if the ICS GmbH subsidy department does not offer any subsidies from the federal subsidy programme ‘go-international’. A rejection email from ICS GmbH is mandatory for the application to be submitted!

Welt!Markt (module fair visits, module participation in competitions, module European technology transfer/EEN, module market entry)

Weiter!Bilden supports Styrian SMEs in the field of internationalisation in the following areas:
Foreign languages/intercultural skills/international management

The ICS’s funding folder

Here you can receive an overview of all the information regarding export funding at the ICS

Further important information regarding export

  • AWS – Austria Wirtschaftsservice GmbH
  • OeKB – Österreichische Kontrollbank AG
  • OeKB – Österreichische Exportversicherung AG